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| THIS PAGE IS IN THE PROCESS OF BEING REPAIRED 91-page report concluding that evidence does not support a link between adverse mental health consequences and abortion. Experts who tried to . Dr. Warren Throckmorton, PhD, an associate professor of psychology at Grove City College, points out that Dr. David Fergusson, a pro-abortion researcher, asserts that the APA report is relies on one flawed study published in 1995. Dr. Fergusson was selected to be one of 20 reviewers of the preliminary draft of the APA paper. Read article by Dr. Throckmorton More than 100 mental health professionals issued a statement disagreeing with the APA report. Read Statement Dr Priscilla Coleman is an Associate Professor of Human Development and Family Studies at Bowling Green State University. A major concentration of her research has been the psychological outcomes among women who have experienced abortion. In an interview, Dr. Coleman summarizes the most common effects of abortion on women:
actively studied and seem to be most common. Not only is there scientific evidence for an association between abortion and poor mental health, but studies have further indicated that abortion is related to an increased likelihood of sexual dysfunction, communication problems, and separation or divorce." Read Dr. Coleman's critique of APA report American Psychological Association Ignores Abortion-Mental Health Problem Link Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) A panel of the American Psychological Association released a new report Wednesday that came to the conclusion skeptics predicted. The organization, which supports legalized abortion, claims abortion causes no mental health problems despite recent research proving otherwise. Real full story Researcher: APA Chair Withholding Info on Abortion's Mental Health Risks by Steven Ertelt LifeNews.com Editor August 15, 2008 Washington, DC -- One of the leading researchers into the aftereffects of abortion on women says he believes the chair of the American Psychological Association task force that issued a recent report saying abortion poses no mental health risks for women violated APA's own ethics rules. Dr. David Reardon, the head of the Illinois-based Elliot Institute, says the report is tarnished by the fact that the lead author, Dr. Brenda Major, has violated the APA's own data sharing rules. Read full story FRC urges new APA report -- Calls for Action The Family Research Center is urging the American Psychological Association to do a new report that studies ALL the mental health risks to women that abortion poses. Research needs to be broader in scope and include studies that the APA report ignored; for example, studies that have highlighted the high prevalence of women affected by repeat abortions or studies that have shown an equally high number of women in the U.S. who have felt "coerced" into their abortions. FRC call to ACTION How The APA Denied Abortion's Mental Health Risks by Rachel M. MacNair, Ph.D Note: Dr. Rachel M. MacNair, is the director of the Institute for Integrated Social Analysis, the research arm of Consistent Life. She is the author of ProLife Feminism, Yesterday and Today. We have known for a long time that the word "choice" in the abortion debate doesn't mean what it means in regular English, having become a euphemism for abortion rather than a matter of actually having options. Now we find that "science" means what the American Psychological Association (APA) says it means, rather than what those of us trained in a university might have been taught. Read full story at Life News |
| American Psychological Association ignores evidence |
| than a matter of actually having Now "science" means what the American Psychological says it means, rather than what those of us trained in a university might have been taught." -- Rachel M. MacNair Ph.D |